Media Releases

Liverpool Plains coal mine approval damning indictment of NSW

January 29, 2015

The Lock the Gate Alliance has slammed approval of a large and controversial open cut coal mine on the Liverpool Plains by the NSW Planning and Assessment Commission.

Regional council’s opposition to invasive mining sends message to candidates and voters

January 29, 2015

The Southern Downs Regional Council has become Queensland’s second Council to oppose mining that would adversely impact the area’s tourism, rural lifestyle or agricultural production. Cr Jamie Mackenzie said the council voted yesterday “to universally oppose coal seam gas, oil and coal mining in...

Doctor says the Qld Government ignores coal seam gas health problems

January 28, 2015

A Queensland doctor told media commentator, Alan Jones today the State Government was ignoring csg-related health problems. Dr Geralyn McCarron, a Queensland GP, said she had become aware of “strange and unexplained symptoms” including blood-noses, headaches, fatigue, nausea and vomiting in people living at...

Lock the Gate welcome inquiry but call for examination of policy solutions for community

January 28, 2015

Lock the Gate today welcomed the announcement from Energy and Resources Minister Lily D’Ambrosio that the government will maintain a moratorium on unconventional gas extraction while it conducts a year long parliamentary inquiry into the industry.

Qld Election: Why Alan Jones couldn’t speak to Brian Linforth about huge mine

January 28, 2015

Brian Linforth could not tell media commentator, Alan Jones on air this morning why he is trying to stop the Colton open-cut mine near Maryborough. Brian is terminally ill; he was taken to hospital yesterday and was unable to take Mr Jones’s call. He...